| Description |
xvi, 435 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Weekend / Ann Beattie -- The bystander / Gina Berriault -- The Amish farmer / Vance Bourjaily -- 1/ 3, 1/ 3, 1/ 3 / Richard Brautigan -- Verona : a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Talk of heroes / Carol Bly -- Fever / Raymond Carver -- The fisherman from Chihuahua / Evan S. Connell -- Midair / Frank Conroy -- Willi / E.L. Doctorow -- The fat girl / Andre Dubus -- A poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin -- Rock Springs / Richard Ford -- The lover of horses / Tess Gallagher -- Redemption / John Gardner -- Dream children / Gail Godwin -- The ledge / Lawrence S. Hall -- Water liars / Barry Hannah -- Letters from the Samantha / Mark Helprin -- Ile forest / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The magic barrel / Barnard Malamud -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The story of a scar / James A. McPherson -- Murderers / Leonard Michaels -- The misfits / Arthur Miller -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce C. Oates -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The used-boy raisers / Grace Paley -- The heavenly animal / Jayne A. Phillips -- Walking out / David Quammen -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- Akhnilo / James Salter -- The Christian roomates / John Updike -- The wedding / Joy Williams -- The liar / Tobias Wolff. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988.
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Jenks, Tom, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0385295243 |
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